1. Full legal name: Riku Herman Meskanen 2. Country, City: Finland, Jyvaskyla 3. Profession: Systems Design Analyst 4. School: University of Jyvaskyla / Computing Center
5. Your goals in the Fedora Project
- It's hard give any list of packages, but I'm mostly interested about features that improves system security, streamline the server setup and administration among others and making the system rock solid.
I prefer systems that have fairly small base set and good tools to add/remove/upgrade well thought package sets or individual packages.
I'm big fan of LVM (both HP-UX & Linux) mirroring, easy recovery tehniques (Mondo rescue is quite good), clustering, failover and load balancing features etc. and I think these features should be relatively easy to set up ... and I don't mean we need always a fancy GUI or Web-front setting it all up. A reasonable text based UI and editor are just fine when setting up server features. If GUI is needed by some and provided it should be optional.
- QA?: I don't have much free time, but sure at least the packages I've been occationally contributing earlier, proposing new packages/features etc.
- Anything else special?
Nope, or wait, don't take my long posts (rants) too seriously if I happen to enter that mode! There is often a good point too, try to see the forest out of trees if that happens :)
6. Historical qualifications
o What other project have you worked on in the past?
- I've contributed some tiny fixes and added features mostly contributing directly to so developers past 15 years and built initial or improved some RPM packagaging since -96. Just to mention few packages lets say ethereal, nmap and scanssh, code submission I haven't much done last years, but there is still some code I wrote in SysVinit (see killall5.c), some of the hacks, proposals etc. I've done can be found from http://people.jyu.fi/~mesrik/rpms/ (The /~mesrik/ level doesn't seem to currently work, there is agan some strange problem with suexec and LDAP home directories ... you can see same page from http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~mesrik/ if there is a need)
o What computer languages and other skills do you know?
- I'm not really a programmer. I'm more data network & unix sysadmin. But I know fairly well all std Unix tools & programs and have 15+ years experience setting up and administering fairly big systems too. When I program nowadays it's mostly perl and some C (long time ago I've earned 7.5 years my living with coding C) but I don't do that as much these days. When contributing misellaneous bits and bobs some existing software usually the developer(s) has already chosen tools and languages & writing style which I need to adapt thus I've learned usually figure out my way to write other languages too :) BTW, more Python developed systems I've seen more interested I've become of it, but I can't really say I know it yet.
o Why should we trust you? <--- too blunt?
- Not too blunt at all, but I don't see a problem here. And if you don't you propably need to start removing few Linux/Unix packages ... been there done that already ;)
7. GPG KEYID and fingerprint
pub 1024D/35B3B739 2002-06-09 Riku Meskanen mesrik@cc.jyu.fi Key fingerprint = B8D6 3817 3F8D 544F CEAC 6345 131B 734E 35B3 B739 sub 2048g/903B9B45 2002-06-09
Anything else just ask me, please.
:-) riku
ps. mesrik[AT]iki.fi is the same person ie. me. It's my private address if it's a interest of anyone. I used it once building a package while leave of absense.